(End of the American Dream)—Within the past several days, there have been several deeply disturbing stories in the news. A sniper shot multiple firefighters in northern Idaho, a sicko literally crucified a pastor in Arizona in his own home and was planning to do the same thing to many more, and socialist Zohran Mamdani is getting lots of attention for winning the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City. It occurred to me that all of these stories share a common theme. At this stage in our history, our society is bursting at the seams with nuts. Once upon a time, crazy people were a very small minority, but now they are all around us. So what has caused this dramatic societal shift?
I think that the fact that most of the population is hooked on either legal or illegal drugs is certainly playing a major role.
We have been trained to think of legal drugs as “safe”, but the truth is that often legal drugs will mess with your mind even more than illegal drugs will. And once you have been on mind-altering drugs long enough, your ability to think clearly will be permanently impaired.
Of course even those that are not on any drugs are being poisoned by all of the toxins that we put in our food, our water, our air and our soil. We live in an ultra-toxic environment and there are thousands of dangerous toxins inside of you right now.
On top of everything else, most Americans are consuming thousands upon thousands of hours of twisted propaganda and sick entertainment. Our televisions are instruments of societal destruction, but the vast majority of us are so addicted that we can’t go a single day without more “programming”.
Considering everything that I have just shared, it should be no surprise that our nation is now teeming with lunatics.
One of those lunatics just purposely set a brush fire on a mountain outside of the city of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Once firefighters arrived, 20-year-old Wess Roley opened fire, and the firefighters didn’t stand a chance. Before it was all over, hundreds of law enforcement officers arrived on the scene…
The sniper was identified as 20-year-old Wess Roley, a law enforcement official confirmed to USA TODAY.
Norris said law enforcement received a 911 call Sunday afternoon about a brush fire and were notified a short time later that firefighters were taking gunfire. Officers locked down nearby neighborhoods and hunted for the shooter in hilly terrain covered with thick brush while smoke billowed from the growing fire. Officers exchanged gunfire with the shooter, Norris said.
The discovery of the shooter’s body on Canfield Mountain, a popular hiking destination outside the city of Coeur d’Alene, culminated six hours of chaos that saw about 300 local, state and federal officers flock to the area.
So why did Wess Roley do this?
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Apparently he was hoping to get a job as a firefighter, but he was rejected because he was too short…
Dale Roley said his grandson, who attended high school in Phoenix, where his mother lives, lived with him in Oklahoma for several months before moving to Idaho last summer to be closer to his father. Neither parent could immediately be reached for comment.
His grandfather said his grandson’s height, standing around 5-foot-8, might have prevented him from becoming a firefighter.
“I know he had been in contact to get a job with a fire department,” Dale Roley said. “He wanted to be part of a team that he sort of idolized.”
I would love to know if Wess Roley was on mind-altering drugs or not.
I have a feeling that he probably was.
In Arizona, a complete lunatic recently went to the home of a 76-year-old pastor and crucified him…
The chief suspect in the murder of an Arizona pastor admitted to the murder to True Crime Arizona correspondent Briana Whitney and told her he had other targets.
Adam Christopher Sheafe, 51, confessed to crucifying William Schonemann, known to his congregants as “Pastor Bill,” one of 14 executions of pastors across 10 other states he planned to carry out. He was apprehended before he could commit any more crimes.
Pastor Bill was discovered at his home on April 28 by police who were conducting a wellness check. He was found dead in his bed and a crown of thorns had been placed on his head.
If it had been a leftist that had been crucified, this story would be headline news for weeks on end.
But the mainstream media is almost entirely ignoring this story because it was a Christian pastor that got crucified.
Adam Christopher Sheafe killed William Schonemann because Schonemann was preaching that Jesus is the Son of God.
In fact, when Sheafe got to Schonemann’s house he didn’t want to harm anyone else…
When he arrived he saw two women in the driveway but did not harm them as he was not “interested in executing anyone [other] than the pastors or the shepherds leading the flock astray.”
He told Whitney he committed the first of his planned murders in his home state of Arizona, as he saw that as the “Garden of Eden.” He said he was planning to kill three more people in Arizona before traveling further afield to Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle, Detroit, and other locations, to kill more people.
If Sheafe had been able to make it through his entire list, 14 pastors would be dead.
The mainstream media doesn’t consider this to be newsworthy, but if someone was hunting down members of a group favored by leftists it would be an entirely different story.
Speaking of leftists, socialist Zohran Mamdani just told NBC News that billionaires shouldn’t exist…
Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City, said Sunday that he doesn’t believe billionaires should exist.
Asked directly whether billionaires should have a right to exist, Mamdani, who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, told NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” “I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.”
This guy is nuts. But he is probably going to be the next mayor of New York City.
Mamdani is not afraid to be labeled a “socialist” at all, and in the past he has even spoken of “the end goal of seizing the means of production”…
The clip comes from a 2021 Zoom meeting of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), the youth section of America’s largest socialist organization, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
During the meeting, Mamdani said the group has to “continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism… …whether it’s BDS, or whether it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production.”
Seriously? You would have to be crazy to vote for Mamdani.
Unfortunately, there are vast hordes of crazy people living in the Big Apple these days.
Mamdani has only been a citizen of the United States for 7 years, but he has now become one of the most popular politicians in the Democratic Party.
Our society is clearly on a very self-destructive path.
Will America finally wake up before it is too late?
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
It is not the country that is on a self destructive path, it is the Democrat party that is on the path to ruin. If you hate the country, you vote Democrat, otherwise you vote for someone else. Why so many people hate the country I don’t know.